Thursday, November 15, 2012

To
evaluate physical therapy interventions for adults with knee osteoarthritis
(OA), investigators from the University of
Minnesota School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, and
Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center searched MEDLINE, the Cochrane
Library, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, Scirus, Allied and Complementary
Medicine, and the Health and Psychosocial Instruments bibliography database
from 1970 to February 2012.

A total of 193 randomized, controlled trials (RCTs)
published in English were included in the review. Means of outcomes, physical
therapy interventions, and risk of bias were extracted to pool standardized
mean differences. Disagreements between reviewers abstracting and checking data
were resolved through discussion.